Czech IT experts are going to build up a food safety inspection system for Turkey

The Czech software company Aquasoft will build up a central information system for registration of farm animals for the Ministry of Agriculture in Turkey. The aim of the project is to develop and implement an information system according to the EU rules with regard to the national specifics of the Turkish legislation.

The Czech software company Aquasoft will build up a central information system for registration of farm animals for the Ministry of Agriculture in Turkey. The aim of the project is to develop and implement an information system according to the EU rules with regard to the national specifics of the Turkish legislation.

All the farm animals bred for economic purposes must be centrally registered according to applicable regulations of the related laws of the EU. The integrated agricultural register makes it possible to perform a detailed monitoring in the territory of the country in question. "In practice this means that millions of animals are checked on an ongoing basis – all the cattle bred, sheep as well as goats – in the course of their entire life cycle," clarifies Michal Opat, head of the project from Aquasoft. "The contributions of the register will be perceived by both farmers and the public, especially in cases of an infection disease occurrence. The system will make traceability possible, i.e. it will be possible to find out where the concerned animals were situated, and thus it will be easier to confine the infection in time, in order to avoid a break out of epidemics," stresses Mr. Opat.

The implementation part of the project will last for 18 months. The agricultural register will provide a complete software support in the field of maintenance of the central register of sheep and goats which form the largest group of farm animals bred in Turkey, a protected web interface for communication of the farmer with veterinary staff and information on registration of animals for the so-called risk analysis of supervisory bodies. Farmers will be able to send reports in an electronic way, without a necessity of personal visits of a veterinary staff member.

A similar information system which the Aquasoft company implemented in the Czech Republic in 2009 is considered by the European Union as one of the best systems of this kind in terms of quality.